Manyano School was a scary place, no kidding. The fence had holes big enough for a grown man to run through. And grown men did. The walls of the buildings were thirsty for paint. The buildings themselves looked scared. The schoolyard was full of weeds and rubbish: broken bottles, out-of-shape cans, skins from long-ago-eaten bananas, mango pips and things you could no longer tell what they had been before they all came and got vrot there. We never played in our schoolyard. Too scared of what might happen. And a lot happened in that yard ...and most of it wasn't nice stuff. Until ...

 

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 72 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd .

Sindiwe Magona is a writer, a poet, a dramatist, an actress, a motivational speaker, and a former employee of the United Nations. She is the author of numerous books, including Mother to Mother and To My Children's Children . Her novel Beauty's Gift was short-listed for Africa's Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Natalie Hinrichsen is an illustrator specializing in children's books. She is the recipient of the Vivian Wilkes award for Tell the Moon .